Graphics (Collaboration Week 2)
During the second and final week of the collaboration project we started to design our initial ideas of what we wanted our final piece for the Metamorphosis project to look like.


For my project, I decided to design a new book cover for "Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka and so my initial ideas were all different designs of what I was thinking of making the book cover look like.

While making initial ideas for my book cover, I came to the conclusion that a book cover was slightly dull for a project such as metamorphosis which had endless design possibilities and therefore I continued with the idea of a book cover however changed it into a 3D one, with a cockroach at the front that pops out in a 3 dimensional way.


I experimented with different layouts of my book cover design and then realised that if it were to be placed in an actual book shelf the 3D picture on the cover will either get damaged or squashed and so I again had to change and develop the idea. Finally I changed my idea into a reversed 3D cover, with a 3D cockroach inside the book rather than outside.



However I still designed a cover for the book that I created.



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Graphics (Collaboration Week 1)
For my collaboration project I decided to do metamorphosis as although I don't like insects, I actually liked the idea of transformation and thought that the book "Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka was interesting in its own weird but wonderful way.

During the first week of the collaboration project we went to the city of Brighton and visited an exhibition at Brighton University Arts centre.

The exhibition featured many skeletons of animals however not in their typical form, they were transformed into weird and unnatural creatures by adding other skeletal remains onto the original skeletons of the animals. This was also done to the illustrations that were displayed on the walls of the exhibition.







I enjoyed drawing my observational drawings for this exhibition as although I found it to be challenging to draw in such detail, it was a fun process.

During this week I also started to visually research the topic of metamorphosis and trying to find different artists and designers in which I can find inspiration from, such as Carol Cavalaris.
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Graphics - Week 3 and 4

Workshops

During the third and forth week of the graphics pathway we took part in a two week design workshop which included laser cutting, colour and illustration, page layout, calligraphy, using indesign and photoshop to create a film poster as well as creating a book cover.

Out of these different workshops I enjoyed laser cutting the most as not only was I able to learn how to use illustrator, I was also fascinated by the actual laser cutter and thought it was very enjoyable to use. For my laser cutting I also used a quote that I really liked and played around with the layout of it as well as the fonts and weight of the words.


I also enjoyed the page layout workshop as I found it interesting to play with different words, and to show their meanings through they way I positioned them on the page.


I was also able to try calligraphy which I personally loved also as it was very enjoyable, although messy. I really liked how what ever I wrote came out looking very elegant and clean because of the ink.


    


After playing around calligraphy I then went on to design a wine bottle which I initially did on paper using ink from the calligraphy class, however I then transferred it to photoshop. On photoshop I then played around with the background of my wine bottle label. Because I wanted my product to be a "Red Rose", I tried to go for a subtly elegant background for the label and so I played around with colours, shapes and tools on photoshop, and I finally ended up with this silky type of cloth like picture which I really like and stuck to.


We were also able to have a workshop on photoshop and indesign which I found extremely helpful, as at this stage I was still considered somewhat of a rookie when using these two programs. We were able to design a film poster for an upcoming film about trapped miners called "The 33" which I also found enjoyable, as I liked playing around with the colours, layout and design of my poster digitally.

In another workshop, we were able to create a book cover for any topic that we wished and so I did mine on good ol' typography and so naturally I played around with the fonts of the book cover, the alignment of text as well as the weight.

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